Ontario News

LONDON, Ont. — Ontario plans to introduce legislation that would limit the amount of time skilled workers from other parts of Canada have to wait to get their credentials transferred to the province.

Ontario is reporting 1,003 people in hospital with COVID-19 and 297 in intensive care. That's slightly down from Thursday, when the province reported 1,066 hospitalizations and 302 people in ICUs. Ontario also logged 35 new deaths from the virus.

Officials in Windsor, Ont., plan to ask for federal and provincial funds to pay for the costs of policing a border blockade, the mayor said Thursday as he lifted a state of emergency imposed after the protest.

TORONTO — A policy requiring that Ontario long-term care workers get vaccinated against COVID-19 is under review, the minister responsible for the sector said on Thursday.

TORONTO — Mask mandates are staying in place in Ontario for now, but when they are removed for public settings they will simultaneously be lifted in schools, the province's top doctor said Thursday. Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr.

TORONTO — Ontario's Opposition New Democrats are criticizing the government for not following a rule that transit vehicles bought with provincial funding must have at least 25 per cent Canadian content.

TORONTO — Ontario's premier condemned Russia's "war of aggression" against Ukraine on Thursday before his government announced a commitment to humanitarian aid and settlement services for Ukrainians.

HAMILTON — Ontario's police watchdog is investigating after a man died following an interaction with police in Hamilton.

A former Toronto police officer serving a life sentence for the rape and murder of two women has been denied parole.

TORONTO — The editor of an extremist publication who was convicted of promoting hatred against women and Jews has been been arrested again after allegedly breaching the conditions of his parole.